Bryan Ferry Quotes
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I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.
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While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
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As you get older, you get a bit more serious.
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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It's nice to know that there are several different avenues I could pursue.
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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.
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I can never predict what's going to happen.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
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When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
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I didn't really want to give up music.
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It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.
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It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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It's good having a lot of different songs to choose from to do the show. It means you don't get bored of doing it in one particular genre.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.
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I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.